The Brownie Pan on TV

You have all seen it. And yes I broke down yesterday and bought one! OOOF. My 4 year old Emery, loves every infomercial on TV. She always says during each commercial "can we get that?" The first thing I thought was I didn’t want all those pesky kids in my house grabbing those brownies. I used to say no, but after a million times of her arguing back "why not!?" I started saying "sure baby" thinking shed forget about it and avoid the fight with my 4 year old (pretty grown up stuff huh). Every time we would go to the store, she would remember like a wise old fox and say "Can we get it today?" That got tiring very quick.. So now we are the proud owners of the "Perfect Brownie". I’m going to store it next to my "slap chop, ove glove, HD glasses, clapper, flow bee and snuggie"

I think I found a solution to night cravings

For me anyways.... I drank two glasses of decaf tea with some stevia. It did the trick. I can’t tell you how much that is going to help! I was feeling so guilty about eating a handful of nuts every night. I’m going to do the same tonight and see how it goes. I also drank a ton of water yesterday and that might have helped too.
My stomach is feeling pretty good this morning even though I did some crunches yesterday. Maybe I just needed that first day of crunches to wake up that muscle area.
Not working out (full workout) is killing me.
More to come!

Shout out

Thanks to David Wallace for the post. His site is full of posts on HCG.
http://www.davidwallace.com/2008/10/hcg-diet-calorie-counter/

Date night - my new obit

My son is old enough to watch reed now (1 year old). So after he went down we had our first date night in a while. Mo and I went to see Avatar in 3d. It was so cool. I think that I could watch people sitting on couches in 3d, because the technology is so amazing.
We heard a story that people were upset they couldn’t live on Pandora (which is the fantasy world in avatar). It is so funny. Who are these people? I read the obits every Sunday to see who has passed. I really try to figure out why young people die and such.. I know it sounds morbid.. One of the things that gets me is when they say the person has moved to another place. So, I told Mo that I wanted my obit to say I have gone to Pandora. Which in my mind is in the center of the earth. So when you read about my passing in 50 years, just know that I am in the center of the earth in a place called Pandora! (Yes mo and I laugh our asses off about this)

o yeah, date night was the highlight of my month. I soaked up every second of just being alone and holding hands with my lovely wife. She’s the best.

Where does the weight go?

I have read a few post about where people are losing the weight. Myself.. I started in my face then worked its way down. I still have the belly, but much better. I think that it was just so big to begin with. I am hoping that it starts to melt away like everything else.

Great Recipe site for HCG

http://hcgrecipes.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2007-10-07T18%3A40%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=7

Foods that I miss and dont miss

A quick list of my favorites that I haven’t touched since the protocol began.

1. Chicken wings. Honey and spicy hot (mostly just the wing sauce)
2. Bread - tortillas
3. Cheese
4. Booze. Even a little glass of wine would be just lovely
5. Any good salad dressing
6. Flavored nuts. I love wasabi and spicy nuts. Never thought they were bad for you, but read the label. Loaded with sugar.

What I don’t miss:
1. Beef (once you have veal or buffalo youll know why)
2. Sweets like candy or sugar gum
3. Creamer - even though a nice cappuccino sounds good
4. Milk
5. Diet soda (just crazy because I used to drink so much of it) Mimosa has really been great about not drinking soda too. (Which is awesome)
6. Butter. A little Olive oil is the solution.

Im going to keep comming back to the list as time goes by. I kind of feel like those guys stuck on a island that talk about what they are going to eat when the get rescued. "Im going to have a beer, cheeseburger and two scoops of ice cream". My prison or rescue meal right now would be a buffalo foccacia from zipps and an 8th street ale. (make that a half yard of that 8th street sir)